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Odessa, Ukraine – Nektony today is pleased to announces release and immediate availability of Informer 1.0, its next application from their iPhone/iPad product line. Informer supplies users with clear information regarding processes currently running on his/her mobile iDevice. Informer monitors and displays the basic IPhone/IPad parameters, including disk and network information, RAM status and system configuration. For many iOS devices owners, it is important to know how certain apps affect the performance and especially memory constraints of the device’s entire system. Informer helps to avoid app crashes and freezes, and helps to keep under control the memory-hungry apps. It is useful for owners of mobile devices in everyday use and will be especially helpful for those who are thinking about upgrading their devices. Informer provides the most comprehensive information on monitoring and analysis of iPhone/iPad performance. It displays the current parameters beginning from the most ba...

How do you spell competitive, stimulating fun? W O R D A M E N T, that’s how. It’s different to your usual hack and slash game and it really challenges the mind. We first wrote about Wordament back in March and since then it’s grown to a hugely popular word spelling game, receiving 4.5 stars from over 15,000 ratings.   The idea of the game is really simple. You’re presented with a square grid of 16 letters from which you need to spell out as many and as long a word as possible. Each letter must be adjacent to the previous one and you spell the word by tracing it on the screen without lifting your finger. Each letter is assigned a score, so make sure you make the most of those high-ranking letters and use them whenever possible in order to score big.   The length of each game only lasts for two minutes so you need to think fast. While you may not think that’s an issue, it is when you consider that you’re playing the exact same set of tiles with every other player around the world. They...

Enough of all that running, jumping and throwing things about nonsense: this weekend the greatest sport of them all takes centre stage again. It’s the opening weekend of the English Premier League and La Ligain Spain. Over the next few weeks other major football leagues in Europe will be getting underway as well.  For football fans, the start of a new season also signifies the renewal of hope and optimism. Sadly, for most of us, it will all end in tears or, at the very best, acceptance of our mediocrity. But don’t they say, it’s all about the journey? To help you avoid any own goals along the way, here is a selection of free and indispensable apps for your Nokia Lumia that will keep you informed of the latest results, news and all football-related fun.   ESPN Goals is top of the table when it comes to English Premier League apps for your Lumia. This app is all about the action on the pitch. It has live scores, match statistics and, best of all,  goal videos.  Yes, you can watch all th...

A few years ago I was standing in a queue at a bank when an elderly woman’s mobile phone rang loudly with the crazy frog ringtone. I have never seen someone blush so brightly. The moral of the story, of course, is to never be caught out with an embarrassing ringtone. You can play it safe by using one of the standard ringtones that comes with your phone, but who wants to use the same ringtone as everyone else? With the Lumia smartphone you can easily make your own ringtones. There are apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace to help you do this, but we think you’ll get much more satisfaction if you can do it yourself! So, in the latest of our practical guides, here is how you can create custom ringtones for your Lumia. The first thing you will need is a media file – the song, tune or sounds that you want to be your ringtone. This file needs to meet the following criteria: It must be in the MP3 or WMA formatLess than 40 seconds longLess than 1MBNot protected by digital rights management (D...

The China’s Xiaomi is schedule to launch its flagship smartphone in October, the Xiaomi MI-2 (aka Xiaomi Phone 2). The upcoming phone will be available via carriers (China Telecom and China Unicom) for price tag 1,999 CNY (around €255 or $315). Xiaomi Mi-2 smartphone is runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS with the MIUI interface. The handset packs a 4.3-inch IPS touchscreen display with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. Heart of the Xiaomi Phone 2 is a 1.5GHz Snapdragon APQ8064 S4 Pro quad-core processor paired with Adreno 320 graphics. As memory term, it will have 2GB of RAM, and 16GB internal storage. The Xiaomi smartphone will pack an 8MP rear-facing camera with 1080p high-definition video recording (1920 x 1080 pixels) at 30 frames per second. There are a MicroSD memory card slots, USB port, and HSPA+ support. Its battery has capacity of 2000mAh or 3000mAh. Coming with multiple color options (blue, pink, silver, and yellow), dimensions of Xiaomi Mi-Two are 126 x 62 x 10.2 mm. View the...

Posted in: Digital cameras 20 hours ago by Ian Samsung have released a successor to its EX1 (or TL500 in the US) large sensor compact camera. The new camera features what Samsung claim is the brightest compact camera lens, complete with a 3-inch swiveling AMOLED screen of VGA resolution. The camera’s F/1.4 24mm lens boasts four times the brightness of a standard F2.8 camera lens, while the 1/1.7” 12 megapixel BSI CMOS sensor further helps low-light conditions. Keep in mind though that the lens maximum aperture drops to F/2.7 when you zoom in to the long end of the lens. The camera supports ISO sensitivity of up to 12,800, offers full manual camera control, image stabilization, and the ability to record 1080p video. The ‘F’ in the EX2F name denotes WiFi compatibility, and allows you to automate your uploads to a wide variety of online outlets, including social networks, Microsoft SkyDrive, mobile devices (via dedicated Android and iOS apps), as well as automatic PC backups. The EX2F i...

Vobis Computer has introduced new Android ICS smartphones in Russia, the Highscreen Alpha GT and the Highscreen Alpha GTR. Both handsets are support dual SIM cards capabilities and runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. The Alpha GT is equipped with a 1GHz MTK6575 processor, 1GB of RAM, and 4GB of internal memory. The phone has a 4-inch touchscreen IPS display with resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. Highscreen Alpha GT smartphone brings two cameras (2MP front- and 8MP rear-facing), Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth, FM radio, GPS, proximity, lighting and orientation sensor. It works with GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and UMTS 900/2100 MHz networks. Dimensions of Alpha GT are 124 x 63.5 x 11.6 mm. More powerful, the Highscreen Alpha GTR sports a dual-core processor and 4.5-inch IPS touchscreen display with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. Other features of Alpha GTR are similar to Alpha GT. View the original article here

Cupertino, California – iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users searching for a fun, fast, easy and effective way to enhance their portrait photos can now download the new free photography app SweetCam, and look better beyond their imagination. Easy-to-use, anyone can quickly enhance their photographs with a single click and automatic face-detection and in-built algorithms do the rest to create wonderful looking photographs. Using special high-quality filters, SweetCam lets users improve the aesthetics of any portrait photo, so that it looks more attractive and luminous. For example, users can add visible extensions to the eyes, slim down the face, or add a natural, lighter glow to the completion and skin tone. They can also apply a variety of cool pre-set filters, such as “elegant” and “hazy” to add even more style, elegance and sweetness to their photos. Plus, users can convert their enhanced photos and share them with friends, or upload them to the app’s “Photo Wall” and invite others to...